Teacher Profiles
Marina Locke, RMT, Senior Yoga Teacher (1000hr), CST, Doula
While in my teens, I began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take me around the world. My first encounter with Yogic traditions was when I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in my teens, introduced by a psychology teacher who also taught me guided meditation and visualization. It transformed my life and introduced me to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were my first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
I am a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), international hatha yoga teacher (Permanent Senior Yoga Teacher 1000+ hours) and have trained as a midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor, and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming a massage therapist I began teaching hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2014, I refreshed my knowledge by completing the internationally recognised Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, together with a business partner, we opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously I became a doula when my clients began asking me to massage them during their births. I have since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post natal care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. My teaching skills and practice have taken me to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
For 7 years I worked in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia, employed by Canadian Mountain Holidays heli-skiing/heli-hiking, to provide massage for their patrons, often seeing 60+ appointments/week.
I studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, Desiree Rumbaugh, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie, Stephanie Quirk and many others. In 2001, I completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. My personal studies continue with the Synthesis of Yoga internationally through exclusive trainings.
From 2005-2007, I held the position of Head of Massage Faculty for Wellpark College and taught massage therapy there until December 2011. During that time I was able to have their Diploma of Therapeutic and Remedial Massage program recognised in Canada.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 I started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months, at my own expense, to help people cope with the earthquake trauma using bodywork techniques to promote relaxation and sleep. I teach stress release exercises for trauma recovery since the earthquakes in Christchurch (2010-2012), the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires.
Currently, home is in Adelaide, Australia after 20 years in rural Rangiora, New Zealand.
I am a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta (YAA), South Okanagan Yoga Academy - RYT500 (SOYA), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta (MTAA), International Institute of Complementary Therapies (IICT), and affiliate member of Massage Aotearoa New Zealand (MANZ).
My career has been guided by many talented mentors that I have had the good fortune to meet and study with.
I recently decided to share some of the trainings I have attended, as well as significant work events:
1995- present - Mother Wellness trainings including pre/post natal massage, pre/post natal yoga, baby massage, birth support/doula skills, understanding the female pelvic floor.
2025 - 37th Home Birth Conference/picnic, Adelaide
2025 - Canadian Massage Conference, Calgary
2025 - Intentional Birth Summit
2024 - Myofascial release with Beth Beauchamps, Christchurch
2024 - Iyengar Yoga convention with Jaki Nett, Christchurch
2024 - Intentional Birth Summit
2024 - Canadian Massage Conference, Calgary
2023 - Intentional Birth Summit
2023 - Cup, Scrape, and Tape conference
2022 - Intentional Birth Summit
2022-2024 - Yoga therapy series with Stephanie Quirk, Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist, Christchurch
2022 - RAPID neurofascial techniques for upper body (in person in Calgary) and lower body (online)
2021 - RIMYI Yoganushasnam online (6hrs)
2021 - RIMYI Remembering Geeta Iyengar yoga online (3hrs)
2021 - Online tension headache pain seminar with Colin Connor
2021 - Anatomy review, online training by Sue Hallas
2021 - RIMYI Back to Basics - Iyengar Yoga online workshops
2020 - Yoga Association of Alberta online workshops
2020 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Anne Marie Tweedie, Christchurch, NZ
2020 - Visceral Manipulation 2 (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Assistant Instructor, Orthopedic Assessment, Seminars for Health, Calgary
2019 - Assistant Instructor, Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Calgary
2019 - Pelvic floor study participant, AUT Physiotherapy study, Auckland
2019 - Spinning Babies workshop with Claire Eccleston in Christchurch
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 3, Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Monica Haar, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Extreme Bathing Retreat (cold water), Maruia Eco Resort Hot Springs, NZ
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 1a (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Registered Pelvic Floor Safe Professional (Continence NZ), Auckland
2001 to present - attended up to 8 weeks/year of meditation retreats and workshops in NZ, Canada and Europe
2018 - Orthopedic Assessment Intensive, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Yoga intensive, 40 days of Yoga, Calgary, Canada
2018 - iRest, Neal Ghoshal, Christchurch, NZ
2017 - Senior Yoga teacher certification acknowledgement, Yoga Association of Alberta, Canada
2016 - Organized NZ Emergency Relief Therapists for Kaikoura earthquakes
2014 - Pre and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training (18 months), IYTA Australia, Sydney, AU
2012-2014 Tutor, International Yoga Teacher’s Association NZ
2011 - Trauma Release, Auckland and Christchurch, NZ
2011 - Anatomy and Physiology refresher, Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2010-2012 - Created and organized NZ Emergency Relief Therapists following Christchurch Earthquakes
2009 - Neurostructural Integration Techniques (Bowen), Ron Phalen, Auckland, NZ
2008 - Assessment techniques with Dr. David Magee, Red Deer, Canada
2007 - Craniosacral Post Graduate Certificate (375hrs), Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2007 - Anatomy Trains, Thomas Myers, Winnipeg, Canada
2006-11 Massage Tutor/Teacher, Wellpark College of Natural Health, Auckland, NZ
2005-6 - Head of the Massage Faculty, Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ. Attended all massage classes, Craniosacral training, and the Yoga Therapy course to restructure and successfully obtained Canadian accreditation for that school. Auckland, NZ
2004 - Visceral Manipulation 1b, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Visceral Manipulation 1a, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Craniosacral 1, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Chi Nei Tsang, Peter Melynchuk, Calgary
2001 - Overcoming Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Prolapse, Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet, Calgary, Canada
2001 - Completed IYTA Australia and Yoga Alliance (500RYT) approved 18 month yoga teacher training through South Okanagan Yoga Association (SOYA)
2000 - Gloria Lemay's Wise Women Way of Birth, Calgary, Canada
2000 - Midwife Assistant training with Ina May Gaskin, The Farm, Tennessee
1998 - Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Studio, Calgary, Canada
1995 - DONA trainings, workshops, conferences
Calgary Association for Parents and Professionals, meetings, workshops and conferences
Orthopaedic Assessment with David Magee and Sports Massage Canada, Edmonton, Canada
Sports Massage and Orthopaedic Assessment with Dr. Myk Hungerford, Calgary, Canada
Russian Sports Massage with Zhenya Kurashova Wine, Calgary, Canada
Assistant Instructor to Prem Singh for 750 hour RMT training at Mt. Royal College (University), Calgary (for which I was allowed to attend the classes for free and so completed trainings in trigger point therapy, pathology and many others)
Attended and presented at the Anatriptic Arts Expo in San Francisco
1991 - Massage practitioner, Glenda Farrall Naturopath, Melbourne
Marina Locke, RMT, Senior Yoga Teacher (1000hr), CST, Doula
While in my teens, I began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take me around the world. My first encounter with Yogic traditions was when I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in my teens, introduced by a psychology teacher who also taught me guided meditation and visualization. It transformed my life and introduced me to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were my first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
I am a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), international hatha yoga teacher (Permanent Senior Yoga Teacher 1000+ hours) and have trained as a midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor, and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming a massage therapist I began teaching hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2014, I refreshed my knowledge by completing the internationally recognised Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, together with a business partner, we opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously I became a doula when my clients began asking me to massage them during their births. I have since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post natal care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. My teaching skills and practice have taken me to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
For 7 years I worked in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia, employed by Canadian Mountain Holidays heli-skiing/heli-hiking, to provide massage for their patrons, often seeing 60+ appointments/week.
I studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, Desiree Rumbaugh, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie, Stephanie Quirk and many others. In 2001, I completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. My personal studies continue with the Synthesis of Yoga internationally through exclusive trainings.
From 2005-2007, I held the position of Head of Massage Faculty for Wellpark College and taught massage therapy there until December 2011. During that time I was able to have their Diploma of Therapeutic and Remedial Massage program recognised in Canada.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 I started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months, at my own expense, to help people cope with the earthquake trauma using bodywork techniques to promote relaxation and sleep. I teach stress release exercises for trauma recovery since the earthquakes in Christchurch (2010-2012), the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires.
Currently, home is in Adelaide, Australia after 20 years in rural Rangiora, New Zealand.
I am a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta (YAA), South Okanagan Yoga Academy - RYT500 (SOYA), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta (MTAA), International Institute of Complementary Therapies (IICT), and affiliate member of Massage Aotearoa New Zealand (MANZ).
My career has been guided by many talented mentors that I have had the good fortune to meet and study with.
I recently decided to share some of the trainings I have attended, as well as significant work events:
1995- present - Mother Wellness trainings including pre/post natal massage, pre/post natal yoga, baby massage, birth support/doula skills, understanding the female pelvic floor.
2025 - 37th Home Birth Conference/picnic, Adelaide
2025 - Canadian Massage Conference, Calgary
2025 - Intentional Birth Summit
2024 - Myofascial release with Beth Beauchamps, Christchurch
2024 - Iyengar Yoga convention with Jaki Nett, Christchurch
2024 - Intentional Birth Summit
2024 - Canadian Massage Conference, Calgary
2023 - Intentional Birth Summit
2023 - Cup, Scrape, and Tape conference
2022 - Intentional Birth Summit
2022-2024 - Yoga therapy series with Stephanie Quirk, Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist, Christchurch
2022 - RAPID neurofascial techniques for upper body (in person in Calgary) and lower body (online)
2021 - RIMYI Yoganushasnam online (6hrs)
2021 - RIMYI Remembering Geeta Iyengar yoga online (3hrs)
2021 - Online tension headache pain seminar with Colin Connor
2021 - Anatomy review, online training by Sue Hallas
2021 - RIMYI Back to Basics - Iyengar Yoga online workshops
2020 - Yoga Association of Alberta online workshops
2020 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Anne Marie Tweedie, Christchurch, NZ
2020 - Visceral Manipulation 2 (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Assistant Instructor, Orthopedic Assessment, Seminars for Health, Calgary
2019 - Assistant Instructor, Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Calgary
2019 - Pelvic floor study participant, AUT Physiotherapy study, Auckland
2019 - Spinning Babies workshop with Claire Eccleston in Christchurch
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 3, Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Monica Haar, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Extreme Bathing Retreat (cold water), Maruia Eco Resort Hot Springs, NZ
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 1a (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Registered Pelvic Floor Safe Professional (Continence NZ), Auckland
2001 to present - attended up to 8 weeks/year of meditation retreats and workshops in NZ, Canada and Europe
2018 - Orthopedic Assessment Intensive, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Yoga intensive, 40 days of Yoga, Calgary, Canada
2018 - iRest, Neal Ghoshal, Christchurch, NZ
2017 - Senior Yoga teacher certification acknowledgement, Yoga Association of Alberta, Canada
2016 - Organized NZ Emergency Relief Therapists for Kaikoura earthquakes
2014 - Pre and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training (18 months), IYTA Australia, Sydney, AU
2012-2014 Tutor, International Yoga Teacher’s Association NZ
2011 - Trauma Release, Auckland and Christchurch, NZ
2011 - Anatomy and Physiology refresher, Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2010-2012 - Created and organized NZ Emergency Relief Therapists following Christchurch Earthquakes
2009 - Neurostructural Integration Techniques (Bowen), Ron Phalen, Auckland, NZ
2008 - Assessment techniques with Dr. David Magee, Red Deer, Canada
2007 - Craniosacral Post Graduate Certificate (375hrs), Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2007 - Anatomy Trains, Thomas Myers, Winnipeg, Canada
2006-11 Massage Tutor/Teacher, Wellpark College of Natural Health, Auckland, NZ
2005-6 - Head of the Massage Faculty, Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ. Attended all massage classes, Craniosacral training, and the Yoga Therapy course to restructure and successfully obtained Canadian accreditation for that school. Auckland, NZ
2004 - Visceral Manipulation 1b, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Visceral Manipulation 1a, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Craniosacral 1, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Chi Nei Tsang, Peter Melynchuk, Calgary
2001 - Overcoming Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Prolapse, Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet, Calgary, Canada
2001 - Completed IYTA Australia and Yoga Alliance (500RYT) approved 18 month yoga teacher training through South Okanagan Yoga Association (SOYA)
2000 - Gloria Lemay's Wise Women Way of Birth, Calgary, Canada
2000 - Midwife Assistant training with Ina May Gaskin, The Farm, Tennessee
1998 - Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Studio, Calgary, Canada
1995 - DONA trainings, workshops, conferences
Calgary Association for Parents and Professionals, meetings, workshops and conferences
Orthopaedic Assessment with David Magee and Sports Massage Canada, Edmonton, Canada
Sports Massage and Orthopaedic Assessment with Dr. Myk Hungerford, Calgary, Canada
Russian Sports Massage with Zhenya Kurashova Wine, Calgary, Canada
Assistant Instructor to Prem Singh for 750 hour RMT training at Mt. Royal College (University), Calgary (for which I was allowed to attend the classes for free and so completed trainings in trigger point therapy, pathology and many others)
Attended and presented at the Anatriptic Arts Expo in San Francisco
1991 - Massage practitioner, Glenda Farrall Naturopath, Melbourne
Carly Schneider, RMT
A graduate from MacEwan University (RMT), Carly is also a Dance instructor and will soon study to be a doula.
She works as a RMT for MVMT Physio and Chiro, a multi discipline clinic in St. Albert
A graduate from MacEwan University (RMT), Carly is also a Dance instructor and will soon study to be a doula.
She works as a RMT for MVMT Physio and Chiro, a multi discipline clinic in St. Albert
Joanne Keiran International Yoga Teacher, Doula, Infant Massage Instructor, Nanny & Grandmother
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
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